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Book "Osada" Michał Śmielak
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In the winter of 1978, the world was close to the end. Snow covered the ground in a thick layer, and some claimed that even hell had frozen over. However, it woke up just then. In a tiny village at the foot of the Karkonosze Mountains, Second Lieutenant Jan Ryś spends his first Christmas in a long time with his family. The Christmas idyll is interrupted by an attack of winter, cutting the tiny settlement off from the world. The doomed battle with the ruthless forces of nature becomes secondary, however, when the body of a young girl is found in the middle of the village. In the face of the crime, old animosities, deeply hidden fears and secrets that should never see the light of day are awakened. Will the inexperienced militiaman be able to shoulder the burden of tracking down the murderer? How much truth is there in the legend, repeated by the elderly inhabitants, that the village has been haunted by Mara, the demon of frost and death, who once took a bloody toll? Forty years after those events, police officers from the X Archive summon the retired Jan Rysio for questioning about the 1978 crime, thus awakening dormant demons. Michal Smielak once again builds the sultry atmosphere of a small community, showing that evil never sleeps....
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